Despite the fact that Blizzard has still yet to confirm a Xbox One release for Diablo III and the Reaper of Souls expansion is coming soon, it is no wonder that Xbox One owners want the same game that the PlayStation 4 is already confirmed to be getting. Blizzard is clinging to the company line that they still don’t have any new platforms to announce, but they would like to put the game in the hands of many people as possible.

A number of retailers are listing Diablo III as coming from the Xbox One. Still with no one confirming it and no one denying it, who can say what the truth is at this time. We have pinged some of out independent video game retailing friends who tell us that they have not heard of a release of Diablo III for the Xbox One yet, but it would not surprise them if it happens.

Our outlook is much the same, but it is hard to say when it might be released, but for sure it would be a welcomed addition to the Xbox One lineup. Still we would not get too excited just yet because Blizzard being Blizzard we know that nothing is for sure till they say it is for sure.

As of September 30th, Activision Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo 3 has reached 10 million in sales. This makes the game the top selling PC game in both North America and Europe in copies sold and dollars made.

Blizzard also moved 2.7 million copies of Mists of Pandaria, which was the latest expansion to World of Warcraft. The 2.7 million copies were sold during the first week of release, and the company didn’t indicate how sales were going compared to the company’s projections.

The bad news Blizzard announced was that Starcraft 2’s Heart of the Swarm expansion will not get a release date this year. Instead, the company will continue to work on the expansion and it is now working toward a 2013 release in the first half of the year. Heart of the Swarm is currently in beta, but no indication was given if the decision was the result of data gathered during beta testing or not.

Considering that Intel recently showed Diablo III running smoothly on 17W Ultrabook, we are not exactly surprised that Apple's next-gen Macbook Pro Retina is able to do the same. On the other hand though, we bet Diablo III looks better on 2880x1800 Retina display than on Intel's Ultrabook.

Of course, the quad-core Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU and Nvidia Geforce GT 650M graphics should be more than enough to run Diablo III smoothly with plenty, if not all, of the eyecandy. With a US $2,199 start price tag for the base model, it should, and probably can, run more than just Diablo III.

We must admit that we never expected Blizzard to resort to lousy DRM methods, especially ones that have already proven to be more than a bit faulty. Unfortunately, the company did just that with Diablo III, but it seems to have brought about quite a loud response from the masses.

Namely, gamers have put up a petition for a patch that would allow playing single player campaigns in offline mode. Quite understandably we’d say, since no internet connection means you can’t play the game you splashed out $60 on.

While the method may make sense someday, it’s far from the best option at the moment. Global internet coverage is still not at the level some companies think it is, and that’s without considering people that travel often and want to kill some time with their favorite game.

The Korean Fair Trade Commission raided the studio's Seoul office to gather evidence as to whether or not Blizzard violated the country's law. There had been complaints in Korea that Blizzard was refusing to refund players who purchased and were attempting to return Diablo III.

Miffed punters who couldn't log into the game were denied a full refund by Blizzard, which said that it was under no obligation to do so under the game's contract. The studio claims that it has a strict policy of "no refunds" in the country if a product is used.

Players complained to the FTC and the commission responded by launching an investigation. The investigation will sort through the seized documents and evidence to see if there is a possible violation of Korea's electronic commerce and commercial contracts law.

Apparenlyt Diablo III players are not to be messed with and the FTC had loads of complaints. Blizzard has since vowed to increase server capacity, to improve the game for players but it is not going to give anyone's money back.

Although Diablo III is not exactly a hardware hog, as was revealed earlier by Blizzard, it still packs a decent punch and looks pretty good thanks to some graphics improvements. Legitreviews.com decided to go with the current Diablo III fever and try out two notebook platforms that have been filling the news posts for a couple of months if not longer, AMD's Trinity and Intel's Ivy Bridge.

The choice of weaponry included an Asus N56V notebook equipped with Intel Core i7-3920XM Ivy Bridge and Intel HD Graphics 4000 and AMD's reference Trinity notebook running A10-4600M APU with Radeon HD 7660G graphics. When those first Trinity reviews went online we were quite surprised that Intel managed to draw close to AMD but we also did note that Trinity is a pretty good chip that will end up cheaper and generally perform better due to better GPU performance as plain CPU performance just simply is not enough.

The same thing happened when Legitreviews.com ran Diablo III. When pushed to render at 1920x1080, the difference was quite noticeable, as Trinity managed to pull forward with an average of 26.2 FPS versus the 17.7 average on Intel's Ivy Bridge platform. Although we would prefer if that average was at least over 30FPS, the 48 percent gain with Trinity is pretty impressive as it depends on whether you can get close to "playable framerates" or you are stuck way below it.

When set to run at lower 1280x720 resolution, AMD's platform managed to be around 40 percent faster with 47.6FPS versus 34.0FPS on Intel's platform. Of course, game ran pretty smoothly on both platforms but this shows that AMD is still quite ahead with integrated graphics performance.

You can check out the original post, game quality settings and benchmark results over at Legitreviews.com.

After twelve years of waiting - Diablo III is finally out, but players obviously seem to have expected more. And when we say more, we mean at least play the darn thing without having the ‘Error 37’ pop up and make you wait for Blizzard’s servers to get back up. Yes, that's regardless of whether it's single or multiplayer.

Apparently, many users have not liked the game and delivered quite horrid reviews. This is to be expected though, and the errors that prevented them from playing surely didn't help. Indeed, it seems that having to be online all the time to play has once again proven to be a disaster, at least for now.

To be fair though, Diablo 3 reported more than 2 million preordersand the game was so hotly anticipated that servers are probably at full capacity. We expect to hear some news soon on whether it’s getting better, and we sure hope it will. As for the graphics complaints, I seem to remember that a similar thing happened with Diablo II, and it sure didn't stop anyone from idolizing it. Well, as soon as they stopped whining.

At press time, Amazon already has 41 new and 3 used games in stock, which says enough really. Users’ comments haven’t been very kind either, and you can find the best picks here.

Blizzard has confirmed that the closed beta for Diablo III will be ending on May 1st in order to prepare for the official release of the game. The game will be released on May 15th, so time is running out to play the beta before you have to deal with the two weeks of withdrawal until the game is released.

Sources continue to indicate nothing but positive for the upcoming release of Diablo III. While we know it will be hitting the computer on May 15th, the company still has no official word yet on console releases or the possibility of such; but we continue to hear whispers that they are working on it.

It is expected that sales of Diablo III will be brisk, as pre-orders for the title have been quite good, to say the least. It is still too early to tell what kind of sales numbers it will do, but an analyst that we spoke with says he expected this to kick off some positive software sales, and hopes that it will get gaming software sales moving in the right direction.

While it is exciting news that the PC and Mac version of Diablo 3 finally have gotten a solid release date, it seems that many of you really want to know when we can expect the console version of Diablo 3 to arrive for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and maybe even the Wii U. Information about the console version of the game was strangely absent from the Diablo 3 release date announcement.

While we know that Blizzard has been working on (or at least experimenting with) a console version of Diablo 3, the company has been very quiet as to their plans. The official company line is that they have no plans at this time to release a console version of Diablo 3.

The lack of talk about a console version of Diablo 3 likely means they are still working on the release of a console version of the game. Blizzard has hired a number of developers for console positions within the company; and normally would not be seeking out developers with this kind of experience if it were not serious about developing a console title. Based on some of the specific kinds of console developers that they are looking for, we have to think that they are pretty far along in the process of porting the game to consoles.

What we suspect will happen is shortly after the hype for the PC and Mac version of Diablo 3 dies down a little, or maybe at E3, we expect Blizzard to make an announcement that a console version is coming; but we doubt that they will announce a release date till later. Sources tell us that if they are going to release a console version, Blizzard wants it out the door this year. The company continues to maintain silence on this topic, but we expect this to be broken soon.

Blizzard has finally put an end to all the rumours and has officially announced the release date of what is probably the most anticipated game in last few years - Diablo III. The game should be available world-wide in both retail as well as digital form on Battle.net on May 15th.

Blizzard has announced that PC exclusive shops in the USA, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau as well as digitally in all those regions and Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Gamers in Russia and listed Latin American countries will be have to wait until June 7th to get their own.

In addition to the official date announcement, Blizzard has also kicked off their digital pre-sale and you can already book your own copy at Blizzard.com. Blizzard also did a promotion that gives you Diablo III for free, as well as some extra WOW content, if you sign up for World of Warcraft Annual Pass. This offer expires on 1st of May.

The Diablo III will support all Windows as well as Mac and will be sold for US $59.99 for both retail and digital version. There is also an exclusive Collector's Edition that will be exclusively sold in retail shops at a suggested retail price of US $99.99.

The Collector's Edition includes the full game on DVD-ROM, a behind-the-scenes Blu-ray/DVD two-disc set, the Diablo III soundtrack CD, a 208-page Art of Diablo III book, and a 4 GB USB soulstone (including full versions of Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction) and corresponding Diablo skull base, as well as exclusive in-game content for Diablo III, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

As it was already detailed, the Diablo III will offer, what Blizard likes to call "the ultimate action-RPG experience" with five different characters; barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter.